 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 262 pages
...abroad ? And they^hemselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. S 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...why abroad? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and lops'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers and speakers - 1828 - 256 pages
...themseives once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6 Slaves cannot breaihe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that...moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles falL That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Cotope'\ Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our county, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud 71. Irruption of Hyder AIL... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud CHAPTER JV. SECTION 1. ; The. morning in summer.... | |
 | Law - 1924 - 594 pages
...(955-6)]. THE SLAVE IN ENGLAND. — It was no idle boast of William Cowper's — "Slaves cannot live in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free — but that was in 1783, more than a decade after Lord Mansfield had said in the case of the Negro,... | |
 | John Wesley Cromwell - African Americans - 1914 - 344 pages
...no such law. This decision inspired Cowper's lines: Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lunga Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. "The Story of the Slave," see, also, "Slavery and Anti-Slavery," William Goodell, for... | |
 | Michel Fabre - History - 1991 - 388 pages
...represents an early, important, and for a time the only, cultural link between American Negroes and France. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Cowper's lines epitomized England's aspiration to be the champion of abolitionism. In... | |
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Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. 
